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Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Two weeks ago Massey Energy began blasting Coal River Mountain and with
it the hopes of citizens who have developed plans for a green wind
project on the mountain. We need you to contact the Obama administration and
tell them to put a stop to this!

Source: savecoalrivermountain.org
Two weeks ago Massey Energy began blasting Coal River Mountain and with it the hopes of citizens who have developed plans for a green wind project on the mountain. Please contact the Obama administration and tell them to put a stop to it.
Jacqueline Dodaro
November 6 at 9:37am
Glen Barry
Glen Barry
Rainforest Action Network supports Forest Stewardship Council ancient forest logging without even knowing how many millions of ha destroyed
Yesterday at 11:15am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Good news today: Gucci Group just announced that it will eliminate all paper made from Indonesian rainforests and
plantations and by controversial suppliers like Asia Pulp and Paper. Help us keep pressure on the slackers, Coach, Calvin Klein, and Marc Jacobs, and tell them to follow Gucci Group's lead!

Source: ga3.org
Indonesia's rainforests are world-renowned for their social and ecological value. They comprise some of the most biodiverse forests on the planet and are home to millions of Indigenous people. They are also key to reigning in climate change but are currently being cut down at an unprecedented rate. ...
Jacqueline Dodaro
November 4 at 7:14am
Glen Barry
Glen Barry
This is ridiculous. We need less conspicuous consumption, not greenwashing shopping bags because they are FSC certified. This is clearcutting Canada's forests to save Indonesia when we should be reducing consumption.
November 4 at 8:12am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network "Palm Oil=The Green Answer"? Sounds like a greenwashing to us. San Francisco’s preeminent green blogger (and RAN alum) Cameron Scott is running a cool contest to find the most outrageous greenwash. Check out the latest contestant on his blog, The Thin Green Line.

Source: www.sfgate.com
An ad [pdf] promoting palm oil as a sustainable source of food oil and biofuel was rejected because it violated truth in advertising laws. The ad was created for the Malaysian palm oil industry and...
Ted Weber
Ted Weber
Indonesia and Malaysia are converting their remaining native rainforest to palm oil plantations - yet this has virtually no media attention.
November 3 at 11:43am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network On Friday, a group of activists occupied the EPA Headquarters in DC to protest mountaintop removal. Check out a clip of the protest here!

Source: www.youtube.com
On October 30th, actions were held across the US to protest the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. In Washington, DC 13 people occupied the EPA headquarters building asking the agency to take action against the ongoing destruction.
Michael D. Austin
Michael D. Austin
Most excellent! Take names, kick biscuits!
November 2 at 10:40am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Tomorrow is the End Mountaintop Removal Day of Action--and there are actions all over the country. Check out the map and attend an action in your area!

Source: ran.org
WHAT: Actions at the EPA and across the country calling for an end to mountaintop removal WHEN: Friday, Oct. 30 WHERE: Your Town, USA CONTACT: Fill out the contact form below
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Can you donate $10 to support RAN's work today? Between 3pm EST today and 3pm EST tomorrow, the Cause with the the highest number of donations will win $1000. Please help us win this prize! If you are not already on Causes, add the application (http://apps.facebook.com/causes/) and search for our cause called "Save Our Rainforests". Click on DONATE and make your donation! Thank you for your support!

Source: apps.facebook.com
Elena
Elena
What's FSC? Sorry to be ignorant...
October 27 at 6:09pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Massey Energy is getting ready to blast Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, one of the last mountains untouched by mtn top removal. Please call EPA's Lisa Jackson's office today & ask her to intervene! Dial (202) 564-4700 and click on the link for talking points!

Source: ga3.org
These operations are happening only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above Pettus, WV. If the dam bursts, nearly a thousand people in the Coal River Valley would likely lose their lives within minutes.
Margaret
Margaret
Me too. How could people destroy mountains and all the wildlife, not to mention what it is doing to the people's health and lives that live there?
October 28 at 12:56pm
Tinker Bachant
Tinker Bachant
I signed. Isn't it amazing what greed will do?
October 28 at 4:12pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network This past Saturday was 350.org's International Day of Climate Action? Did you attend any 350 events in your area?

Source: www.nytimes.com
Kicking off with thousands gathering on the steps of Sydney’s iconic Opera House, global warming protests took place around the world Saturday to mark 50 days before the U.N. climate summit.
Michael D. Austin
Michael D. Austin
Yes, ah did, thank yew phore asking.
October 27 at 10:17pm
Margaret
Margaret
At a Yoga Center of California retreat, we did an amazing group prayer Saturday night. Many people made statements asking spirit to move and express in the areas of concern for our planet, the inhabitants of the planet, meeting global warming objectives, protecting the water, air, trees, animals, being caring and loving people. You could and I can ... Read Morestill feel spirit expressing. The retreat was about tuning in with Oneness and then making critical decisions regarding our relationships and careers, for example. Aligning our will with the higher will and then having a back and forth relationship, each supporting the other. May we all experience such an attuned and joyful interaction. Spirit is inside all of us, it is just a matter of being open to the mud being washed off, so we can be attuned to what is already inside us. This is easily done by releasing tension in the body, through yoga postures and then releasing turbulence in the mind, through meditation. If more of us tuned in with our inner self, it would affect the consciousness of the planet. www.mysteries.net has twelve free classes that help with this and twelve years of class, also, www.yogaworld.org and www.spiritualworld.org.
October 27 at 11:27pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network HuffPo just posted a list of the best environmental actions (and RAN pulled off one of them!). Which one was your favorite?

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Those committed to Mother Nature have been known to express their grievances with public happenings and large-scale art projects rather than anti-war style marches. We've compiled a slideshow with some of the best acts of civil disobedience committed in the name of the environment.
Ted
Ted
I couldn't name which I liked best, I liked all of them.
October 22 at 1:46pm
Glen Barry
Glen Barry
My favorite would be RAN's occupation of Gore Presidential offices for Oxy rainforest holding that Nadar also had.
October 24 at 4:16pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Thanks to everyone who called Cargill today and told them to leave tropical rainforests alone! Over 3,000 people called and their phones are still ringing!

October 21 at 4:59pm
Imogen
Imogen
What an unbelievably pathetic email they send in response.
October 21 at 6:11pm
Melinda Johnston
Melinda Johnston
I rang for sure. A great call to make!
October 21 at 8:10pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Want to tell Cargill how you feel about their palm oil plantations that are standing in the place of tropical rainforests? Today is the global call-in day to Cargill and they need to hear from you! Call Cargill's headquarters at 1-800-CARGILL (227-4455) or 952-742-7575 and click on the link below for talking points!

Source: ga3.org
Tropical rainforests are home to half the plant and animal species on earth, and only 20 percent of these forests remain on our entire planet. Unfortunately, increasing demand for palm oil for consumer ...
Lopa Brunjes
Lopa Brunjes
Done and done. Lydia, their PR director, said, "I'm not sure why, but we sure are getting a lot of calls about this today." I encourage everyone to call! It only takes a minute...
October 21 at 11:09am
Jacqueline Dodaro
October 21 at 2:18pm
Juanita
Juanita
done and it felt good to get that off my chest !
October 21 at 4:38pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Massey Energy is on the move - and Coal River Valley residents are doing all they can to stop the coal company from blowing up one of the last standing intact mountain in the region, which also happens to be a proposed wind farm.

Source: itsgettinghotinhere.org
Coal River Valley residents and supporters associated with Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero delivered a letter to Governor’s Manchin’s office in the State Capitol building at 12:15 p.m. ...
Cloudy Scribbler
Cloudy Scribbler
hey -- blowing up a mountain before they can build a wind farm on it? that's one way for big coal to deal with the competition

because of these two competing uses,
this particular site sounds like a good symbolic one for more general use in the national struggle -- even if the coal company succeeds in blowing it up
October 20 at 3:10pm
Glen Barry
Glen Barry
If you are a member of Rainforest Action Network you are responsible for tens of millions of hectares of ancient forest logging w/ FSC certification
October 21 at 2:28am
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Do you know a good reason carbon trading is bound to fail to save us from climate change? 350.org is collecting 350 reasons why carbon trading is the biggest financial scam in history and they want you to submit your brilliant thoughts on the problem called carbon trading!

Source: www.350reasons.org
350 Reasons is a collaborative project to showcase the multitude of reasons against the false solutions proposed that advocate carbon trading in confronting climate crisis.
Emerald Star
Emerald Star
many church groups also promote scams!
so add RELIGION and Business and Politics as arenas where we need to be CAREFUL whom we believe !
October 20 at 12:59pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network Several large corporations--like Apple and Pacific Gas & Electric-- have already left the US Chamber of Commerce due to the commerce's denial of climate change. Maybe it's time for the world's largest business organization to accept the science behind climate change or risk losing more of their members...

Source: understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Chris
Chris
Denial knows no boundry.? What is it with these people is it fear of it costing them something to fix it if they believe it? I know there' s already talk of power bills increasing. Hard scientific fact cannot be ignored. Plain and simple ; ppm ((((carbon monoxide)))) get w/ the program "chamber" !!! 350 day be there!
October 19 at 2:04pm
Lair Davis
Lair Davis
I do not believe it is denial at all. It is blatant disregard for the future in order to gain immediate profits, and they could not care less about their own families' future and the future of their own descendants, much less the rest of us. That is how evil these capitalist pigs are! They want instant gratification and will accept nothing less. ... Read MoreWell, THEY are the enemy. Make a list and start boycotting. THAT is the way to get their attention. Anything else is just "blah blah" and ineffectual. if we are serious, we need to ACT seriously against these enemies of the earth - and call them out for what they are!
October 19 at 2:50pm
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network On Oct 30, activists across the nation will be taking action at EPA offices to demand an end to Mountaintop Removal. If you are interested in participating in the Day of Action to End Mountaintop Removal, please sign up at the link below!

Source: ran.org
WHAT: Actions at the EPA and across the country calling for an end to mountaintop removal WHEN: Friday, Oct. 30 WHERE: Your Town, USA CONTACT: Fill out the contact form below